I woke up early (4:30am)this morning so that i might get some good shots with my new lens, the 18-200mm Nikon VR. Well i have to say that the VR was amazing! I shoot 600 photos with it all hand held and managed to get most of them fairly sharp, even zoomed all the way to 200mm, as in this photo. I have to hand it to Nikon, the equipment i have been using has performed well above my expectations. And HEY no tripod!! one less thing to lug around..not that I was lugging one around before.